<p>Two employees and a third man are accused of stealing about 500,000 pounds of metal from a Houma scrap yard and selling it to another for about $55,000 since mid-December, authorities said.</p><p>Terrebonne sheriff's deputies got complaints last week that people were stealing from Larose Scrap Yard in east Houma, Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said.</p><p>Detectives found a dump truck with 3,000 pounds of stolen scrap metal from the yard Tuesday, the sheriff said. Ronald Macalusa Jr., 39, 586 Crochetville Road, Montegut, owns the dump truck, and deputies arrested him and charged him with felony theft.</p><p>Scrap-yard workers Shane Foster, 34, and Jason Cartwright, 47, of Houma were also arrested Tuesday and charged with the same crime, authorities said.</p><p>All three were in the Terrebonne jail today awaiting a bond hearing.</p>